How many scenic spots will Yuanmingyuan have if it is not burned down?

Yuanmingyuan, also known as Yuanming Sanyuan, is a large royal palace in the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. It is composed of Yuanmingyuan Garden, Changchun Garden and Wanchun Garden, so it is also called Yuanming Sanyuan. In addition, there are many small gardens in the east, west and south, surrounded by stars.

As we all know, the national treasure Yuanmingyuan was looted and burned by the British and French allied forces.

We should still remember a sentence once said by Hugo, a great French writer: "One day, two robbers broke into the Yuanmingyuan. One robber robbed and the other set fire to it. Judging from their behavior, the winners may also be robbers. An unprecedented looting of Yuanmingyuan began, and the two conquerors shared the stolen goods equally. What a great achievement, a godsend windfall! One of the two winners filled his pocket, and the other saw it and filled his box. Then, they went back to Europe arm in arm, laughing and laughing ... two robbers named France and England. "

However, when I recently read history and read the poems of Yuanmingyuan written by Wang Kaiyun, a scholar and writer in the late Qing Dynasty, I was surprised. He wrote a sentence on the note: "When foreigners come to Beijing, they must enter the palace. When you see the splendid furnishings, you should not enter each other, and the cloud dare not claim compensation with the lost property. " When foreigners came out, the nobles and the poor advocated raping the people and pretending to be foreigners, so they set fire first and the foreigners came back to plunder. "

This means that when the British and French allied forces went to Yuanmingyuan, they did not enter the house, and they also warned each other not to go in. If the contents are dropped, people will loudly demand compensation. But after they left, some poor flag-bearers ganged up and robbed. Afraid of being discovered, simply set fire to the garden. When the British and French allied forces knew about it, they turned around and grabbed it.

What's going on here? Did China people really do the burning of Yuanmingyuan? This really ruined the three views!

I was afraid that something was wrong, so I carefully consulted the historical materials and found a comment by Huang Zhuo, a famous politician in the Republic of China. He said: "At the beginning of the battle of Yuanmingyuan, the allied forces only burned official houses outside the park, or for military needs. And many flag-bearers took the opportunity to plunder, so the Coalition forces also entered the park. "

Two people were identified as China people, which should have been very certain, but later I found out that this Huang Zhuo was a traitor and was publicly executed at 1937. This makes me hesitate again. Is the traitor's words credible?

So I checked the historical materials again, and found that Wang, a publisher and political commentator in the late Qing Dynasty, also mentioned in the article "The British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan" that a considerable number of French people directly participated in the looting and burning of Yuanmingyuan. They climbed over the wall with ladders and robbed with the British and French allied forces.

In this way, the Yuanmingyuan was jointly participated by the British and French allied forces, even if it was not robbed first and then burned by the people.

Not only that, but what is even more exasperating is that it is said that the British and French allied forces did not find the Yuanmingyuan at first, and China took them there. Yang Yunshi, a doctor of Guangxu Emperor's household department, wrote in Tan: "Rape Li, lead the allied forces to rob the Yuanmingyuan, and all the pearls and jade treasures will come out ...".

However, the book Historical Materials for Rebuilding Yuanmingyuan with Tongzhi said: "At the beginning, Gong Xiao, an adulterer, swam to the sea and reached foreigners cunningly. I heard that there are three generations of rockers in Yuanmingyuan, so Gong likes to drill and carve, and when he changed the capital of Gengshen, he took advantage of the chaos to lead him into the park and set fire to plunder ... "

Who is Gong? He is Gong Zizhen's son. Gong Zizhen, a thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in the Qing Dynasty, wrote poems such as "Falling in love is not heartless, but turning into spring mud to protect flowers" and "I urge God to come back to the gods and drop talents in an unconventional way". However, if he was still alive at that time, I don't know how he would feel if he found himself calling for "eclectic talent reduction" and God reduced a traitor fool like his son!

Some people will say that even if Gong and others don't lead the British and French allied forces to Yuanmingyuan, the British and French allied forces will find out and rob them. But what I want to say is, even if the British and French Coalition forces find out that they will rob, can this be an excuse for us to excuse those traitors?

This reminds me of Taoist Wang in Yu's The Tower of the Road. It is because of him that the priceless treasures in the splendid Dunhuang Grottoes will be smuggled out by foreign robbers, and the Taoist King's purpose is only to get two pennies.

Others will say that those who rob and burn Yuanmingyuan are not just for money. The Yuanmingyuan was built by the emperor with people's fat and paste, and it was burned to let the people breathe a sigh of relief!

This is the most puzzling "truth", even Xiang Yu who set fire to Abang Palace more than two thousand years ago! But what I want to tell these people is that Epang Palace, Yuanmingyuan and the Great Wall of Wan Li, no matter how many people's essence have been searched, once restored, are the soul of the nation and the precious legacy left by our ancestors. If we are justified for self-interest, I just want to tell you that people like you don't deserve to stay in the splendid civilization of China!